http://www.dontdrinkandroot.net/ 2012-05-20T21:35:21+02:00 http://www.dontdrinkandroot.net/ http://www.dontdrinkandroot.net/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-12-01T12:07:24+02:00 http://www.dontdrinkandroot.net/java/wicket/models?rev=1322737644&do=diff Introduction While Models are one of the fundamental concepts in Wicket the details are hard to understand if you are new to the framework. Models are a level of abstraction between a component and the data this component uses. This is necessary as Wicket persists its components and it is not always desirable that the whole dataobject is persisted as well. Even more complex operations such as transformations can be performed. A clever use of Models can significantly reduce the space used by th…